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Maya: material imported but still shows as purple checkerboard

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Eddie
Snap Lens Network Member Lens Studio Team

Hi there! 

I'm trying to export an object from maya that has a colored lambert texture. I followed the maya export tutorial, and the texture seems to have exported correctly with the .fbx file. The texture names all show up in my materials. But in the preview, it seems that all of the materials are still the purple checkerboard pattern. 

Is there something simple I need to do to get the materials to preview properly? 

 

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    Travis Chen
    Snap Lens Network Member Lens Studio Team

    Hi Eddie, I think two things are going on here. Both of which we've created bugs for and hope to fix in a future release. 

    • It sounds like you haven't assigned a texture to your Lambert material and are purely using the color field. First, on Material import, the color property is not coming over into the Lens Studio material. This is a bug which we aim to fix.
    • If you don't assign a texture to the Lambert material, when imported into Lens Studio, the material that gets created assumes you want a texture and just haven't assigned it yet. Thus, gives you a purple and black checkerboard. What likely should happen instead is that the Base Texture check box in the material should be unchecked. 

    To fix your material:

    1. Find the material in the resources panel and select it
    2. Uncheck "Base Texture" so that the material doesn't use base texture
    3. Tune the base color material to whatever you want your color to be

     

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